Faculty Research Profiles: Richard Hunter

Section Links

• Research Biography
• Degrees
• Key Professional Appointments
• Activities & Honors
• Selected Publications
• Selected Links

Research Biography

Degrees

• Ed.D., School Administration, University of California at Berkeley, 1971
• M.A., Elementary School Administration, San Francisco State College, 1967
• B.A., Elementary Education, University of Omaha, 1961

Key Professional Appointments

• Professor, Educational Organization and Leadership Department, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2000--
• Department Head , Educational Organization and Leadership Department, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2000-2003
• Professor of Educational Leadership, School of Education, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1999-2000
• Associate Director for Education, Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA), United States Government, Arlington, Virginia, 1998-1998

Activities & Honors

• Fulbright Scholar, This competitive cash award is granted by the United Department of State, US State Department, 2010-2011
• Book Co-editor, Sage Publications, Inc., 2010-2011
• Book co-editor, Sage Publications, Inc., 2010-2011
• Top 20 Most Influential Education Professor, On-Line Masters in Education Blog, 2010
• Consultant, Champaign Schools, Champaign Unit 4 School District, 2009-2010
• Committee Member, Division A-Affirmative Action Committee, American Educational Research Association, Division A, 2008-2011
• Editorial Board Member, College of Education, Journal of Education Finance, 2008-2011
• Facillator of Unit 4 PIC meetings, Champaign Schools, Champaign Unit 4 School District, 2007-2010
• Facilitator, Champaign Unit 4 School District, Champaign Unit 4 School District, 2007-2009
• Served as reviewer of many publication during this period., Washington State University, National Association of Secondary School Principals, 2006-2011
• Editorial Board Member, University of Dayton, Education and Urban Society, 2006-2011
• Editorial Board Member, Association of School Business Officials Internation, Reston, Virginia, School Business Affairs, 2006-2010
• Scholarship, Scholarship, Southern History Association, 2006
• Organization-Member, American Educational Research Association, 2005-2010
• Member, Springfield, Illinois, Illinois Association of School Administrators, 2005-2009
• Member, Conference Attendance, Education Law Association, 2005-2009
• Member, Washington, DC, National Alliance of Black School Educators, 2005-2008
• Member, San Francisco, California, American Association of School Administrators, 2005-2007
• Member, Champaign, Illinois, Educational Administration Alumni Association, 2005-2006
• Publication Series Editor, Elsevier Science, 2005
• Member, Springfield, Illinois, Illinois Council of Professors of Educational Administration, 2005
• Member, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Urban Review, 2005
• Editor for Book Series, London, England, Elsevier Science, 2005
• Editorial Board Member, National Association of Secondary School Principals, 2005
• Member of the Board of Reviewers, Dayton, Ohio, Education and Urban Society, 2004-2005
• Member, Chicago, Illinois, El Valor Policy and Advocacy Committee, 2004
• Expert Witness in Litigation, Little Rock, Arkansas, Plaintiffs of the Little Rock Public School Desegregation Case, 2004
• Participant, Washington, DC, Frederick D. Patterson Research Institute, 2004
• Expert Witness, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, NAACP Legal Defense Fund, 2004
• Publication Series Editor, Publishing Company in United Kingdom, Elsevier Science, 2003-2007
• Member, Illinois Association of School Administrators, 2003-2005
• Institutional Representative, American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, 2003
• Member, Illini Division of Illinois Association of School Administrators, 2003
• Advisory Board Member, Illinois Association of School Boards, 2003
• Editorial Board Member, The Urban Review, 2003-2002
• Institutional Representative, Washington, DC, American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, 2002-2005
• Publication Series Editor, Elsevier Science, 2002
• member, Illinois Association of School Administrators, 2001-2007
• Member, Academic Leadership Program, Committee on Institutional Cooperation , 2001-2002
• Consultant, Plaintiffs of the School District of Benton Harbor, Michigan, Plaintiffs of the School District of Benton Harbor, Michigan, 2001
• Hearing Review Officer for Special Education Appeals, Raleigh, North Carolina, North Carolina State Department of Education, 2000

Selected Publications

• Brown, F., Hunter, R.C., Donahoo, S. (2011). Diversity in public education, as part of the book series, Debating Issues in American Education: Sage Publication.
• Brown, F., Hunter, R., and Donahoo, S. (2011). School governance, as part of a book series, Debating Issues in American Education: A Sage Reference Set, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
• Hunter, Richard C. (2011). Given school dropout rates, especially among poor and minority students should college attendance be the norm for all U.S. students? (Headnote) In F. Brown, R. Hunter, and S. Donahoo (Ed), Diversity in public education, as part of a book series, Debating Issues in American Education: A Sage Reference Set, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
• Hunter, Richard C. (2010). The privatization of public education, Reston, VA: School Business Affairs, 76(8), pp. 14-18.
• Hunter, R. C., & Brown, F. (2009). The changing organization and the administration of public schools after the Brown era. Journal of the World Universities Forum, 2(1), 147-164.

Selected Links